Bretforton ManorBretforton • nr Chipping Campden

WorCestershire/glouCestershire Borders

Bretforton ManorBretforton • nr Chipping Campden

WorCestershire/glouCestershire Borders

The most beautiful restored listed village Manor House with extensive gardens and grounds, fine architectural features, high quality accommodation and many additional attributes,

in outstanding renowned gardens creating a beautiful setting for the house

lot 1: Bretforton manor: Porch • Wonderful panelled reception hall • Formal drawing room • Dining room • Cloakrooms • Office

Study • Morning room • Sitting room • Billiards/ballroom • Breakfast room • Large kitchen with handmade oak kitchen units

Pantry/utility room • Boiler room • Wine cellar

Library Landing • Master bedroom suite with large en-suite bathroom and dressing room • 5 Further first floor double bedrooms

4 en-suite 1 with separate access from the kitchen • Linen room • Two second floor bedrooms, one en suite, and further bathroom • Attic room

outbuildings: First floor high quality self-contained apartment with hall, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, sitting room and cloakroom with internal and external staircase • Large loft

Extensive range of attached outbuildings and garaging incorporating further wine cellar, tool store, machinery and other stores, gardener’s room

Vaulted swimming pool room with gymnasium over, changing room, plant room and shower

A real feature of Bretforton Manor is its setting with superb landscaped gardens with formal and informal ponds, patios, pergola, lawns, garden walls and brook

Tennis court, orchard, greenhouses, cold frames and vegetable garden • Fine timbered and thatched cider house with cider press and gallery over

Dove cote, aviary, bee house, summer house, village stocks, flower borders, mature trees and shrubs

Park field to the front of the house about 2.83 hectares (6.99 acres)

lot 2: 2 Brook Villas • A beautifully restored semi-detached cottage with hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen,

bathroom and two first floor bedrooms, gardens to front and rear

Traditional ridge and furrow and parkland fields about 5.95 hectares (14.69 acres)

in all about 8.78 hectares (21.68 acres)

Chipping Campden 6 miles • Broadway 6 miles • Honeybourne 1.5 miles (intercity trains to London Paddington)

Cheltenham 18 miles • Stratford upon Avon 12 miles • Birmingham 30 miles • Oxford 40 miles

(All distances are approximate)

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text.

situation• Bretforton is situated close to the Cotswold

escarpment and is readily accessible to the

quintessential Cotswold towns of Chipping Campden,

Broadway, Moreton in Marsh and Stow on the Wold

• The village of Bretforton, of Anglo Saxon origins, has

a shop, nursery school, primary school and National

Trust owned Fleece Inn

• The nearby Cotswolds are one of England’s Areas of

Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), well known for

its lovely stone houses and cottages with traditional

architecture, many dating back to medieval times

Chipping Campden is also noted for its excellent

primary and secondary schools, and there is a

wide selection of state and private schools in

the area to suit most requirements in Moreton in

Marsh, Stratford upon Avon and Cheltenham

Cheltenham, Stratford upon Avon and

Leamington Spa provide excellent regional

shopping facilities

For the commuter, there is easy access to both

the M5 and M40 and regular intercity train

services to London from Honeybourne and

Moreton in Marsh

Stratford upon Avon with its theatres and

Shakespearean heritage is the region’s cultural

centre

description of property• Bretforton Manor is a fine example of an English village

Manor House constructed of mellow lias limestone

with Cotswold stone mullions and stone slate roof

under attractive dormers and gables

• The house has been beautifully restored and updated

by the present owners and incorporates different

elements and dates of English architecture

• The present building principally dates from 1602 with

castellations above the porch with medieval stone carved

figures of monastic dignitaries. The accommodation is bright

and spacious

• The accommodation of the house is particularly fine and

reception rooms are approached from a wonderful panelled

reception hall with ornate carved panelling reputed to have

come from a galleon from the Spanish Armada. The shutters

to ground floor windows are in working order

• The drawing room is an elegant formal room and has a

beautiful marble surround fireplace. The dining room can

accommodate a table to seat 18. The accommodation

includes a study with corner fireplace, office, elegant morning

room with sitting room beyond, double doors and side

passage to vaulted billiard/ballroom being a later addition.

• The breakfast room incorporates a former Elizabethan

inglenook and the kitchen is particularly fine, with a

four oven Aga, limestone floor, handmade solid oak

units with granite tops, pantry off to one side, staircase

to a separate first floor bedroom suite and large boot/

utility room beyond with inglenook former bread oven

and storage. There are two wine cellars; one superb

wine cellar in the house and one in the outbuildings

• The first floor wooden bookcase lined library landing

creates a further fine sitting/study area

• The master bedroom suite has a range of wardrobes in

a dressing area and large en-suite bathroom with twin

basins, bath and separate shower

• The further four bedrooms are spacious, with fitted

wardrobes, high quality en suite bathrooms and shower

rooms and many traditional architectural features of high

quality

• The property incorporates a reputed priest hole

• To the second floor there is further accommodation, of

good quality, with two large bedrooms, two bathrooms

(one en suite) and attic room

• The accommodation is hardwired for Wi-Fi, TV and

telephone system, security and smoke alarms, zoned gas

fired central heating. Electrics, plumbing and heating have

all been upgraded and updated by the present owners;

CCTV and electric gates

gardens and grounds• No other Manor House can surely offer the range of

attributes that are boasted by Bretforton Manor

• Attractive self-contained first floor apartment, finished to

a high standard, ideal as guest or staff accommodation,

granny flat etc. Extensive range of stores, machinery

stores and courtyard. Indoor heated swimming pool with

a non-chlorine filtration system, vaulted ceiling and south

facing French doors to a lovely paved patio, pergola and

gymnasium

• In the gardens there are 14th century village stocks;

17th century cider mill with cider press and gallery

over, with timber framing and thatched roof ideal for

entertaining. Dovecote restored in 1743 and again by

the present owners. 18th century bee house, aviary and

summer house, Lychgate to the church with engraved

panels and carved stone arch, and gate leading to the

village and Fleece Inn; kitchen garden with cut flower

borders, 2 greenhouses, cold frames and orchard

ground floor

approximate gross internal floor area

house, apartment & attached Buildings: 1,527 sq m (16,437 sq ft)

Cider house & dovecote: 100 sq m (1,078 sq ft)

2 Brook Villas: 83 sq m (895 sq ft)

total: 1,710 sq m (18,410 sq ft)

this plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon

as a statement of fact. attention is drawn to the important notice on the

last page of the text of the particulars

first floor second floor

outbuildings

Cellar

first floor apartment

2 Brook Villasground floor

2 Brook Villasfirst floor

2 Brook Villas – Energy Efficiency Rating

• The outstanding gardens extend in all to about

5 acres, have been re-designed and entirely re-

planted by the current owners; fully rabbit fenced. The

immaculately maintained garden, locally renowned,

incorporates garden walling, mixed and herbaceous

borders, mature trees including lime and a yew walk,

gravel paths and small lake with a waterfall

• The beautiful walled gardens includes a pond with

fountain and exotic border, scented walk, long borders

with many tender and unusual plants

• The Arts and Crafts inspired structure of the garden

with compartments, walls, hedges, topiary both old

and new, lawns and bulbs enhance the setting of the

house. Through the garden is a brook creating an

additional water feature

• There is a hard tennis court next to the orchard

Cider House

Cider House

lot 2• Across the lane to the front of the house is a parkland field

giving privacy and protection

• To the rear of the garden is 2 Brook Villas, a restored

semi-detached cottage with lovely open views and well

stocked gardens to front and rear, beyond which is a fine

example of a medieval broad ridge and furrow paddock,

parkland field and grazing

servicesAll mains services are connected to the Manor. Security system

with CCTV.

2 Brook Villas has mains electricity and water, oil fired central

heating and Bio disc drainage system.

Lot 2

fixtures and fittings All those items mentioned in these particulars are included in the sale. All other

excluded. Certain items may be available by separate negotiation.

directions (Wr11 7Jh)From Oxford, take the A44 signed Evesham and proceed through Chipping Norton

and Moreton in Marsh. At Broadway, about 34 miles from Oxford, turn right at the

roundabout onto the B4632 to Weston Sub Edge then take the B4035 to Bretforton.

Take the first left after the village garage into Main Street, turn right at a T junction,

continue past the church and Bretforton Manor will be found on the left hand side.

termstenure: Freehold.

local authority: Wychavon District Council Tel 01386 565000

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Lot 2 14.69 Acres

5.95 Ha

Lot 1 6.99 Acres

2.83 Ha

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